Flaco's Memorial

From 4 – 5 in Central Park,

Beneath his favorite tree,

So many fans of Flaco* gathered –

Yes, including me.

 

Around the trunk were letters,

Poems and pictures and bouquets

From all of us who knew how Flaco

Brightened up our days.

 

Some people never saw him

But still followed all the writings,

Plus the videos and pictures

That accompanied the sightings.

 

I left my poems in tribute,

Heard the speeches and the songs

And await the hoped-for statue

In the place where it belongs.

 

*a male Eurasian eagle-owl who

escaped from the Central Park Zoo

and survived for a year in the city